Caleb Brewster

Caleb Brewster (12 September 1747-13 February 1827) was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army and a member of the Culper Ring in New York City during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Caleb Brewster was born on 12 September 1747 in Setauket, New York, and he was the great-grandson of the first minister of the old church in the town. Brewster worked as a merchant before the American Revolution, with his travels taking him to Greenland on one occasion in 1776. When the war broke out, he joined the patriots under Benjamin Tallmadge, and he recruited his old friend Abraham Woodhull into the patriot cause in the autumn of 1776. Brewster served as Tallmadge's courier to the Culper Ring (Woodhull's spy network), with Anna Strong giving him signals; Brewster's identity was revealed by double agent William Heron on 4 February 1781, but he managed to evade capture. After the war, he became a blacksmith and died in 1827 in Black Rock, Connecticut.